Re: Customize fringe

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: 10 May 2002 10:32:08 +0900
> 
> The basic name of a feature has a strong influence on how people think of
> it

Agreed.  However, we do have *-mode functions that take more than
on/off choices.  An example is mouse-avoidance-mode.

> Call it `reduced-fringe-mode', and have it switch between full fringes
> and, say, right-fringe-only.  People who _really_ want to have no fringes
> at all can customize an associated configuration variable and choose that
> possiblity as the `reduced' state, and it will still make sense.  It could
> also allow a C-u prefix to select an alternative configuration, or prompt
> for the configuration, or whatever.

To continue the same example, mouse-avoidance-mode prompts for the
avoidance method.